Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel
Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel (P.S.)
Francoise Sagan,
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
ISBN: 0061440795
DDC: 843.914
Edition: Paperback; 2008-06-01
Summary:
Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very
essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints
of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young
widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer
vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest
mistress, Elsa. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and
her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a
"tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late
mother's best friend, Anne, intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures.
And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cécile
and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic,
unexpected consequences. The internationally beloved story of a
precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world
around her, Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully
composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at
once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.
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